Posts by Missing Semicolon 1754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Nov 2013
Auditing is great - right up to the bribe to the lowest-paid member of the auditing chain.
There is so much money to be made from fake components now, the cost of faking the supply chain traceability has become reasonable. The only solution is to make them in a factory you can watch. Like one next door.
If IBM were selecting the time-servers for removal, and encouraging those who are keeping up, and so blend experience and knowledge to grow and contribute, I'd agree.
Instead, they are just blanket firing the oldsters. So decades of experience is chucked out. As a result, IBM destroy their competitiveness, as they can off nothing different to any other body-shop.
The problem is the entirely unjustified linking of research collaboration with the pissing contest in the channel, and the clusterfart that is the NI protocol. The fishing issue is simply France trying to "renegotiate" the new normal of having to ask nicely to fish in what is now somebody else's waters. An agreement they signed, remember. And NI was plainly unworkable as soon as the EU started insisting on a ridiculous interpretation. Rather in the way that you can't play "Just a Minute" if you take the rules at face value.
I'll ignore the nasty comment at the end.
SMETS2 smart meters use 2G/3G. So maybe they will fall back to 2G with the 3G off. But there are going to be many installations where only 3G is available, so the meter will go dumb.
This is a problem, as future energy security is to be maintained by demand management, using dynamic pricing. Right now, it's just for electric vehicle charge points (that's why you can't have a charge point without a smart meter) but it is intended to be applied to domestic supplies too.
Replacing the communications module on dead meters is going to be expensive and slow.
DCC has a contract with Telefonica to provide 3G until 2033. I bet the Tristrams have forgotten that
You know how currently, to get the best price on OEM Windows licenses, manufacturers have to buy a license per shipped machine, irrespective of whether Windows is actually installed?
Well, I guess the next move is that the price per-box now depends on if a) Pluton is on by default and b) disabling Pluton in the BIOS is prevented. The price will be less in that case.
So, nice cheap laptops will have Pluton on and locked, so no Linux. Which means that old laptops will become landfill, instead of being upcycled with Linux.
Remember, upcycling is good for the environment, but bad for business.
Now, when the bank's cloudy infrastructure becomes unavailable it's fundamentally not their fault, so they can just shrug. No more fail-over to the emergency DC, just "shrug".
We will tolerate this because everything else is the same, and we just suck it up.
"It is a bit of a pig to learn". Which is precisely the point of Nano. It has zero learning curve, all of the controls (by default) are visible on the screen, and when you open a file you can move the cursor about and just type, like a normal person.
Even the Alpine Linux container has Nano.
If you download pictures off Photobucket, and sell posters, you are infringing copyright. Social media images are similarly owned by their authors and/or the platform. The fact that they are freely downloadable is of no matter, as has already been proved in court. So how is Clearview still operating?
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